Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back pains. They went home, stayed in bed two or three days, felt better, got up. There was probably no one in the nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
...about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully echoed Seattle, "but a great many common colds." Denver, without announcing the number of influenza cases, told school children that they would have an extra week of Christmas vacation. Finally, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen observed: "Those who take care of themselves aren't dying. The epidemic hasn't yet reached the virulence of 1918. It is, however, the worst since...
...pederasty." No President had ever said or written so frankly as Franklin Roosevelt, and he might not have done so if he had not been egged on by his longtime friend and subordinate, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. When Dr. Parran became Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service last year he declared that he intended to treat syphilis and gonorrhea like other pandemic diseases (notably tuberculosis) and fight them in the open (TIME, Oct. 19 et ante...
...victims of gonorrhea and the unestimated victims of soft chancre (caused by Streptobacillus ulceris mollis) in the U. S.* that they may reasonably expect the following means of relief during 1937: "1) The appointment of a full-time venereal disease control officer in every State department of health...
...member of the School of Architecture since 1908, Charles W. Killam wil retire from active teaching next September 1. Poor health causes him to give up the professorship that he has held since...